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Show rrs to the mystery she fancied was in her ual development would keep pace with the practical, she would be thoroughly satisfied with her educational processes. She mused on the problem as he JLLUSTMTOISPY'RMJnRt silently and vigorously. He WYMnottr wicHMMwt arnuoamSACAi cmjau once or twice, but she kept stopped i him to it, a feat vastly greater than degrading halter. SYNOPSIS. she realized, until the interior of the Then she waited in intense and ory in him was but latent, the impresboat, which was a small ship's boat, sion that had been A young woman cast ashore on a lone-t- y when she saw his efforts slacken, she eager curiosity as to what he should produced upon him a dinghy, had been entirely cleared Island, finds a solitary Inhabitant, a pointed to the sands to indicate to him do next. The iron in his situation had what she found there at some young white man, dressed like a savage, that he was to sit down, and then she eaten into his soul. He had been masout. She had watched carefully every by and not able to speak In any known lan- went period in his life was strong enough away conscious that while the tered by force. He could not underspadeful or sand which had been tossed to make him avoid it forever. guage. She decides to educate him. She over the buried gunwales and now finds him in an attitude of prayer, bab- rope held she was free. She was con- stand it. He did not love the mastery. She did not ask him for assistshe searched eagerly the boat itself. bling an Incoherent Jargon. She finds a scious of another thing, too, and that Still, without the knowledge of his ance, indeed, she would not hav human skeleton and the skeleton of a was that he was Her inspection revealed nothing. trusted him with the knife under any learning a sad and own powers, there occurred to him no og. She finds a Bible and a silver box There were lockers at either end. bearing the name of John Kevell Char-noc- bitter lesson of physical restraint to way to resent the ignominy to which and he made no atThese she opened, finding nothing circumstances, with a date 25 years before her which he had never before been sub- ha had been subjected. He turned and to keep close to her. He stood tempt therein but mouldering remains of on landing. ject. walked away from her. She stood the outskirts of the coppice in a She had rejoiced in his companion- amazed, staring after him. It was the cloth, bags of some sort which she CHAPTER III Continued. IV. CHAPTER surmised might have contained ships ship, of course. It had given her some- first time he had withdrawn himself thing to do, her mind something to from her presence. bread, and a little barrel or keg, which Where was he Lesson and Labor. It was not long before she reached work upon, and would do more in the going? Was this a declaration of war? had probably carried water for the the barrier reef. It stood up a foot or future, but she never enjoyed a mo- Was there to be enmity between The task to which she set herself in voyagers. two above the water how, the tide be- ments freedom more. She ran to the them? In vague terror, moved by a the morning would have been an imThe boat appeared to be in an exing low, and she clambered upon it. little amphitheater formed by the sudden impulse again, she called him. possible one to many women, and in- cellent state of preservation. There The sharp rocks cut her naked and cliffs where the cave was and throwdeed it was a hard one to her. The were even a pair of oars lying on the Man! she said. tender feet, unused to such exertions ing aside her blouse and skirt, she luxHe stopped, hesitated, looked back, buried boat lay in the sand some rods thwarts. If she could have dug it out uriated in a bath in the fresh, cool, turned and went on again. He was distant from the nearest tree. There of the sand entirely, she fancied 6he . and unfitted to such demands, but she persevered. The boat had been beaten delightful waters of the pool at the deeply hurt. She could not see him was absolutely no shelter from the could have launched it and used it to pieces. It had been forced over base of the fall. There was a certain go. It was unthinkable that he should fierce heat of the tropic sun. She was But such a task was utterly beyond the reef by the hurl of the sea. The amount of apprehension, for, of course, go. He was dangerous away from her. not yet fully accumstomed to it, and her. Beside there would have been indeed perhaps she never would be no gain in having the boat afloat. She stern had been wedged in between he might break his tether at any time, By her side she could control him. some projecting rocks. The rest of it but she was sufficiently confident not able to endure it without some sort would not dare to take it out beyond Man! she called again. had been torn away and had fallen to let this take away the pleasure she But this time he did not heed. An of a head covering. She improvised the barrier reef and there was nothing into the lagoon. There was no wind, felt in the bath of fresh water after idea sprang to her brain, working a bonnet from the leaf of a low spring- to row for in the lagoon. the sea was unruffled. She could see the long experience with the salt seas. quickly under the pressure. She lifted ing palm tree, which, with her remainShe easily broke the rotting lines as if through a glass the wrecked re- If she had had a cake of soap she up her voice, for he was far from her ing handkerchief, she tied about her with which the oars were secured and mains of the boat. There was nothing would have been completely happy. now and plodding steadily, doggedly head. And then with her watchful took them out. They would be useful She had much to do and she could toward the trees. in it except the battered motor, usefriend by her side she descended the perhaps in some way. And then after less for days before she landed, since not linger. For one thing, she had to John! John Revell beach to the boat and began to dig. 6he cried. a long look at the boat and w ith a feelher supply of gasoline had been ex- face the problems of clothes. She had Charnock!" It was hard and very tedious work. ing that her labor had been mainly hausted. And at that sound Jtbe man stopped. With the flat make shift shovel in the wasted, she was about to turn away Everything else had been absolutely nothing when she landed washed out of it and carried into the except what she wore. Besides the He turned and looked at her again. shape of the rough piece of board it when the thought struck her that was almost impossible to lift the sand. sometimes boats carried the names of John! she repeated. John! deeper recesses ef the lagoon where usual underwear these consisted of She approached him. As she did so Yet she attacked the task resolutely the ships to which they belonged on they were inaccessible to the human her blue serge blouse and skirt a short skirt at that and a silk petti- and when she could get near enough and persevered sturdily for a long their bows or across their sterns. She vision. Stop! Under what remained of a coat. She left ,the blouse and skirt to him, she observed that wrinkling time until the sweat beaded her fore- had recourse to the shovel once more, piece of thwart she caught a little outside on the rocks where they would of the brow, that look of amazement head, her back ached, her hands, un and after some deliberation essayed She Watched Carefully Every Spadegleam of metal. Calculating the dis- soon dry in the sun. They had been which she had noticed before. It was used to manual toil of any kind, were the stern of the boat. ful of Sand. tance nityily, she plunged in and dove. wetted so often that there was no pos- as if some latent memory, some recol- almost blistered. She realized at last It was not so hard to shovel the sand away from it and here she did great state of excitement, uttering Keeping her eyes open she easily sibility of their shrinking further. lection of the past, were struggling that she would have to give it over. She wondered as she ceased her make a discovery, for although the let- without sequence or reason such found the piece of metal, dislodged it Then she took stock of the rest. With against the obscurity of years, as if from the place where it had fallen and needles and thread, of which she something were endeavoring to thrust labors whether the constant observa- ters had been almost obliterated by words as she had taught him. To him, came to the surface with it. It was a possessed some store in the housewife itself through a sea of oblivion and tion which the man had subjected her the action of the sand, she could still in this Instance, she gave no heed. Presently she had completely unsailors sheath knife with a bit of which had been saved from her bag, forgetfulness that overwhelmed his to would enable him to continue the make them out. After some study she thought she could make shift to mind, as if she were a voice which work. As an experiment she handed she decided that the name of the boat, covered the two skeletons. She had a to had She had it. fastened lanyard or four garments, or of the ship to which it had be- studied anatomy, but was not a spefancy to wear it in her sailors blouse manufacture three in that department of human and she had missed it since she had open at the neck, without sleeves and longed, had been Nansemond of Nor- cialist with skirts that came to the knee, She thought that the skelerelearning. net come ashore. was the folk, Virginia. That of the hard labors of a long morn- ton before her was that of a woman. But there was nothing else in the garments just sufficient for modesty. sult There was no other need for clothes, It told her something, but not She measured its length with a piece ing. boat, not a thing; nothing on the bar- so in as that far went, that balmy much. Assuming that the man with of tall grass and compared it with her rier reef. She tried to pull the stern island. her was John Revell Charnock and as- own. They were both of a size. The away where it had been wedged, but from this, but she shrank in which the bones lay was soft Naturally at She found that impossible. suming that be had come to the island soil tugged to this expedient in the past on that boat, It indicated and porous. Every vestige of clothing It valiantly, but could not move it. In unless she restorted her clothes would wear out all at and disapthat he was at least an American and had long since rotted away despair she turned to the man who once. Indeed, they were in none too it if with flesh the covered, if peared and her as identified It usual a irginian. him, had watched silently as it was, a'nd when the person whose bones lay there had t AMniig. v ore correct, and He seemed to understand, good a condition pointed. were worn out she would have for tnoiu silver, not, worn any article of gold or for he came and with great effort they would not have hesiShe which, being rustless Woum nave-wa- rconnothing. she and from naturally instinctively of the boat lifted the torn part vived the long exposure, they were tated a moment had it not been for cluded that she was correct. the rocks and laid it down at her feet. the decision the buried in the earth beneath man or not, but man, probably Admitting all this, however, it She threw it Into the water, where, of one to which she bones. She would attend to that was mind in the her a to build which clew from no her floated gave course, as it was wood, it must come. history. The testimony of the boat later. easily. Then, with a nod to him she women, Then she looked toward the bones Unlike most overeducated was interesting, that was all. Her first and in together they guided she was still expert with her needle, plunged at the feet of the human remains and it where it to was, leave was cue . It to the thought shore, he taking his decided and as her garments were to be of instantly that they were the was better, but her second thought from her action. she had not much diffl bones of a dog. Across the vertebrae the of simplest stout of the aid With the piece She had a fancy to test his strength it up, in making over her silk skirt in board which had served her for a lay a piece of metal. She picked and she managed to convey .to him by culty the way she fancied. Belted in at the at the recognizing it instantly as a plate hammered she away shovel, vain in herself signs, mainly by trying it would do. She would use the belonged to a stern piece until she broke it off. She which had probably to pull it apart, what she wished him waist, was an inscription collar. bound the man for that purThere that rope dog must lain have boat the saw now that to do. The impossible to her was pose, keeping it always about her. She not take the trous childs there In the sand for many years, for on It which she did to play to him, and in a moment had, of course, but one pair of stockread. Slipping ble at the moment fastenthe was and brittle wood the the several pieces of the boat which ings and one pair of light canvas boatthe bosom of her tunic and into it stern for the ings largely destroyed, made up the stern were scattered on sure that the confining rope shoes, which were almost cut to piece came easily away. She laid it making the beach. There was one straight ing bareto have would She it from falling out, she go would keep pieces. to moment a for pre intending aside piece which rwent across the stern foot. down and gathered the bones stooped Heaven serve it with the Bible. of the boat and made a little box for blue serge dress and the her of the human being up in her arniB, Putting usefulof future dream what knows the coxswain to sit in, which would rest of her clothing carefully away, ness in the way of evidence establish repulsive as the task was, and carried do for a shovel. It was too wide, but down to the boat on the beach. inculding her shoes and stockings, she a and stone ing identity these might be, entered them big she broke it against out on the sands, bare armed, laid them in the bottom of tha She stepped mind. her was possessed of what she wanted. bare footed, a gleaming figure like to & Then she threw herself down under boat carefully and then moved by The ends were rough and serrated and an Olympian goddess. She was went and she back sudden Impulse, the. trees and rested. She had left unfit for her hands, but these she woman naturally dark in complexion, her watch, her precious watch, back gathered up those of the dog which smoothed by the aid of her knife. She and while the sun would probably burn in the cave with the book. She did she put In the boat also. It waa an sharpened the other end and soon had and burn her young flesh, her cruelly innot dare to carry it around with her. easy matter to tumble a few spadefuls She shovel. a a rude semblance of to its intensity, darker, never exposed She had no way of carrying it In the of sand over the bones. Then she left tended to use that on the boat on the she would not grow red' or blister. She sepulture, single garment which she wore, them in that rude Viking thin, next sand the day. would soon refill was thankful for that with unconscious time that knowing of she from the but the judged height Finished with this, she looked at femininity. At any rate, she must get sun that it must be noon time. They the empty dinghy and the bones would the man and sighed in despair. Could used to going out in the sun without inmade their meal off the fruits of the be safely buried unless some other she ever get rid of him? Instantly a hat, too. People, natives who were uncover them. should vestigator this a rich time and with juicy island, there flashed into her mind that born and lived in this latitude, did The man had assisted her in no way cocoanut added, which the man got for which she had before overlooked as of become accustomed to such things this process, but his excitement was in lanher in the her at sign suggestion no moment. A long, heavy boat rape, she knew, so undoubtedly could she great. While she stood looking very ex rhich was at she becoming guage the boats painter, she had noticed With these thoughts, she stepped down at the little heap of sand which wonderful with by agil climbing pert, the when she dove lay floating by around the headland and walked all that remained of this fority, ape-likagility almost, one of the covered side of the boat from which it hsd not across the beach toward the palm tree and lorn forgotten visitor to this istall cocoanut palms with which the been severed. An idea came to her. where she could see in the fading light island abounded. There were fruits land, wondering if the fate of that Dropping the shovel and followed by of the afternoon her prisoner was still of variois sorts in great plenty on the trespasser upon these silent shores her satellite, she plunged in owe more tied. island and she was becoming accus would some day be hers, the man sudboat. to the swam Wasting and again Modesty is a negative term. That denly dropped on his knees as she had tomed io the diet by degrees. an found Goddess. as the which is indecent exposure in a ball A Gleaming Figure Like before, no time, she dove Olyrrvian first night on the In noon the honr She trying seen him do on her passed rope and having previously opened room is the height of convention on a hands his He Island. put together and to add to the mental equipment of her her knife, cut it quickly nnd came to sea shore. Certainly this man had no brought back things he could neither him the shovel, stepped out of the mumbled Jargon which she that began a number He she had and could made which pointed say nor and companion. understand utter, yet the surface gasping. not been able to understand, but concept of such a quality. He had towgrji it. He understood instantly of words now and had some idea of had There were perhaps 10 or 12 feet not noticed before when she had come meant something to him. had seemed to her more like which John! she cried again, coming She sfas surprised at the unusual their meaning, although he had not of it. It was a stout piece of rope, of out barefoot to swim to the barrier than anything to which he s he for language nor sentences of his to frame to apprehension, nearer him. yet attempted unusual quality, as Viad been every- reef, and yet somehow she fancied as vent. She was surprised behad given will a and set him to with so to work teach had she yet tried to right good She thrust out her hand; she touchthing on board the yacht. The very he stared at her approaching; that this measure, yet she listened with in I minute the sand was flying. She do. It was pleasant under the shade yond best of stuff bad gone into it and she time he marked the difference. And a ed him. Again she noticed that strange iw'iced half in on the alert if possible faculty every more marmuch how trees. herself found She of the envy did not believe" any ' man on earth slow, fiery blush flamed over her from emotion consequent upon her touch. to comprehend what he had been saycould ef- veling at times as to the contentment made could break it. She had amused her- her bare feet to her bare head, ex- She laid her hand upon his shoulder. progress he was than she was ing, and presently a familiar sound or labor for her fect. of What a the her, that reasproduct possessed self on the crulsus by learning the rudi- tended along her bare arms. She There was amity, confidence, flashed into her mind that he two Eden-likfor a little and after the into play him, yet age suddenly plungpd ments of seamstiship and she could tie stopped under the persuasion of im surance. She patted him as she might use of a prayer which Bhe was making space he stopped, threw down the existence which her forebears knots like any sailor. This little ac- pulse to turn and go back to the cave a dog. had used in childhood; that, herself shovel at and looked her. ten thousand have enjoyed might she said, and then John! complishment was to stand her in and resume her clothing, at least so absurd, fantastic, impossible though She had got in the habit of speak- years before. away and walked toward the good stead. She wrapped the rope long as it might last. But she was a the conclusion was, he was saying the to him if as so he she declin the on until ran hours ing understood, The laaround her neck, plunged in the woman of strong will. She reasoned shore. childish petition, Now I lay me down to exclaimshovel the came again, ing sun and the coolness that Obediently he followed her. s?he pointed goon for the third time, and swam that all the motions to which she was with the late afternoon warned her to sleep! (TO BE CONTINUED.) once more to the shore. subject were in her own bosom; that thrust the knife between her waist ing:Pick it up and go on. that if she were to continue her ex She led the way up the sands to the the man before her neither knew nor and the rope which she had rupidly Her was Plenty to Do, him if to obvious middle and meaning plorations she must be about it imher which about vexed twisted to the tyalked she as Then the tied things rope cared palm grove. You seem to be doing a good busirose So and she not. was was her nerving It .earned mediately. he If had language on in triumph. equally around the mans neck, not in a slip her. So she went on. said the meter reader to the She had in her hand the sailor something, so had she. Some one else evident to her that he had no desire herself to her task went toward the ness," noose, of course, but in a hard circle, w hatever to proceed with his task, but coppice where lay the ghastly remains druggist. man in John could She called this blade had gone a with the days open. and quickly made running bowline knife, re"It's unusually good had been a human being around the nearest tree. He had not not tell exactly in what mood her by. The sound wa3 not unfamiliar to he was still under the constraint of of what herself had Ive cheerful the druggist. with the to her plied duty made the slightest resistance. He had prisoner might be. Indeed she ap him. He answered to his name. That her superior personality and presently Forcing who asked to see the She he did as she bade him. It amused knife she carefully cut away the rush- seven patrons no idea evidently of what she was do- proached him with a certain terror, was he,' John Revell Charnock! five who used the telenot disturb to the directory, lescity to to her other reflect all the that es, being particular ing or the purport of her motions. accounted for partly by the situation felt as if she were entering upon the to make bones, ot the skeletons. As before she phone, 11 who bought postage stamps, Then she turned and went away from and partly by the fact that in mak- solution of the mystery of his pres- sons, so remakable as almost was now did all this in the face of a vigorous and one who wanted me to remove He started for her at ing this change in her garments she ence. Perhaps the morrow would te'l. his brain reel and whirl, he him quickly. remonstrance from the man. In some his porous plaster. Its a rush of busof If could lesson she toil. the once and was nearly jerked from his had, as it were, cut herself off from She would examine that boat and learning abwith these way, she could not tell how, the place iness like this that makes a druggist great of pace only in keep evidences herself and of civilization those humanity the It brought decaying rope. feet by the tautening was was horrible to him. He would never wish he had been brought up a motor-inainto stract she concepts putting his physi- on the farther shore. as a new situation for him, yet his some degree at least nearer or a truck driver. Cleveland e sor mental him his have come near it evidently of his own being by giving She felt elated that night ere she hands instinctively went to his throat cal level. But she could not leave him of mem-- j Plain Dealer. the so and ;he realization of that power although will, them, cour spirit cave. clew The her to went all the in there sleep night. Summoning and be strove to tear away the noose, putting forth such a prodigious amount of strength that she stood in horror lest he should part the lashing. But it was made of stout stuff and he had no purchase; although he pulled until the sweat stood out on his forehead from the violence of his efforts, they were of no avail. She had not dared to interfere or to say a word, but Cyrus Townsend y y Brady age, therefore, and with a bold front before him, sue advanced to the tree and untied the rope from the trunk and untied it from his neck as well. He stood silent, unresisting through it all, a rather pitiful figure she thought at first, until he was freed from the k, hand. She had such occupation before her as she had never hoped to come upon in a desert island, at least. The rope added to her security. By piling 6tones before the entrance to the cave and reinforcing them with the boards from the wreck of the boat and some fallen tree branches on the shore, she made a sort of a barrier to it, not a barrier that would have kept out of the cave any one who desired to enter, but one which would have to be removed before one could enter. And she so arranged matters, tying the end of the rope to her wrist, that any attempt to remove it would immediately waken her. That night she slept secure and unmolested. d j'" wheth-warran- -- e quii-J.pes- . n |